Furniture construction



June 25, 1929. 005 1,718,585

FURNITURE CONSTRUCTION Filed April 27, 1928 o o o o mic o 0 r o o o o o o o o o c INVENTOR 12,005

ATTORNEY Patented June 25, 1929.

v UNITED STATES EDWARD ROOS, FOREST PARK, ILLINOIS.

FURNITURE cousrnucrxon.

Application fled April 27,

My invention relates to improvcmentsin furniture constructions, and it consists in the combinations, constructions, and arrangements herein described and claimed.

' An object of my invention is to provide a means for increasing the general surface of red cedar heartwood which is finally formed. into cedar chests, clothes closets, or the like, whereby a greater amount of cedar oil fumes 1 may pass therefrom. It is a well known fact that cedar oil fumes pass from the usual red cedar heartwood. The amount of the oil fumes allowed to pass from the wood depends upon the exposed surface of the .wood.

A further object of my invention is to provide a construction of the type described in which red cedar heartwood may be used as a core for a veneered furniture construction and provided with a sufficient means for allowing a certain amount of oil fumes to pass therefrom.

A further object of my invention is to rovide a construction of the type described wherein a chest may be formed and provided with any desired area of exposed cedar surfaces for allowing any desired portion of cedar oil fumes to pass therefrom.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following specification, and the novel i features of the invention will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, in which a chest illustrating my invention,

Figure 2 is a lateral sectional View of a. chest illustrating my invention,

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail of a portion of the chest, and

Figures 4 and 5 are plan views of cedar boards embodying my invention. 7

In carryingput my invention, I show'as a means of illustration a chest 1 composed of a front wall 3, a back wall 2, end walls 4 and 5, a bottom 6,, and a top 7. The front wall 2, the end walls 3 and 4, and the top 7 are provided with a veneered construction, as will be explained, and the bottom 6 and the rear I 'wall 3 are provided with solid cedar boards.

Theveneered construction, which is embodied in the top, front, and end walls, may be of three, five, seven ply or of as many plies as desired. In the present instance I Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of have shown a five ply construction which con.-.

1928. Serial No. 273,311.

sists of a core 8 of cedar wood, preferably of red cedar heartwood. Layers of cross handing 9 and 10 are placed adjacent and secured to the core 8. The outer layer 11 and mner layer 12 are then disposed upon the cross banding. The inner layer 12 is of red 'of each of the veneered portions. This constitutes the provision of amultiplicity of elongated recesses or slots 13 which extend through the inner layer 12, the cross banding 10, and a sufficient distance'into the heart of the core 8. This formationpermits an escapement of the fumes from the core and provides an expose surface greater than the area of one side of the core. In this manner more than the ordinary result may be obtained from the core by the provision of the slots 13. It will be noted that the slots 13 are disposed relatively close together and in par allel arrangement.

The bottom 6 and the hack 2 are provided with a multiplicity of elongated slots 14 which are similar in formation to the slots S5 13. With this construction the intrinsic value of the wood may be increased to a maximum.

As stated heretofore, the amount of cedar oil fumes passing from the cedar wood depends upon the'exposed area of the cedar wood, together with the thickness of the wood. In veneered construction it is necessary to place the equal number of layers upon the inside portion as is applied upon the outside portion. Therefore, achest formed of veneered construction cannot produce the sufficient supply of oil fumes with merely a back and a bottom portion of plain cedar and thin plies of cedar such as that indicated at 12 upon the veneered portions. Therefore, the provision of the multiplicity of grooves or slots 13 provides a communication between the interior of the chest and the core 8 of each of the veneered portions and provides a an area of exposed surfaces sufficiently large board. In

, 1, A construction ing exposed portions of said core.

gated grooves or slots 16 which extend inwardly substantially half the width of the re 5 I have shown a cedar board 17 which is -provided with a multiplicity of openings 18 which are drilled into the board approximately half the width thereof. The slots 16 or the openings 18 provide a means for increasi the surface area of one side of the boards. hese boards mav be used for forming any structure, such as linings for closets, trunks, chests, or the like. 4 I J I claim:

of the type described comprising a veneered portion, a core for said veneered portion, and means for provid- 2. A construction of the t described comprising a core, veneering lsposed upon said core, and means for exposing an area of surface of said core.

3. A construction of the type described comprising a body portion. formed of wall 821110118, one or more of said wall portions means comprising a plurality of slots extending throug the veneering upon one side of said core and into said core.

Signed at Forest Park in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this 24th dav of April, A. D. one thousand nine hundred twenty-eight.

EDWARD R003. 

